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I have recently tried to configure conky to display information about the music that is currently being played. I use mpd together with ncmpcpp to play my music. The portion of my .conkyrc file that pertains to the music configuration looks like this
Whether i am using mpd or not, the part that should be displayed when mpd is running is not displayed. I do not receive any error messages whatsoever. The versions of mpd and ncmpcpp are 0.19.1 and 0.5.10, respectively. The distro i use is BunsenLabs Linux.
No, i haven't. After checking the conky man page i discovered these three variables:
- mpd_host
- mpd_password
- mpd_port
I assume they are the ones you are talking about. I'm going to try to figure this out myself and will post as soon as i have made any significant progress. However, if you are willing to give any further help it will be very much welcome.
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
Posts: 7,680
Rep:
I cat'd my mpd.conf when I first read this thread (abut 10 hours ago) and what struck me was that mine had brakes '{}' around most things and yours did not.
I seem to recall some issues getting conky to work so I just used lost sand lots of braces and the like and it worked. Sorry, probably not much use but there you go.
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